The great escape never came like the movies
No brave attempt to scale the fence,
Never who he ever wanted to be
So he lies awake and thinks
with a half a mind to break away
The starts and ends
and the time she spends in the middle
Is the dullest pain,
but she won't complain just a little
and the house is a mess
So she lies awake and waits
For the love that got away
It's cold outside but here, it was better
A shelter while the years grew together
For could-have-beens and beauty in decline